Today in History: Oct. 19, 1977 - Truck dumped in the Red River; another truck found on the riverbank

Today in History revisits the Wednesday, Oct. 19, 1977, edition of the Grand Forks Herald and highlights a story of a potato truck that was stolen and left dangling in the Red River. Another farmer's truck was also stolen and found on the river bank, stopped by a tree on its way into the river. Truck dumped in river John Drees had one of his potato trucks stolen and driven into the Red River just below the dam at Riverside Park. But he jokingly said that he should hire whoever did it. At 7 p.m. Tuesday, the two-ton truck owned by the Drees Farming Association of rural Grand Forks had been left at the Associated Potato Growers warehouse. It wouldn't start. But the vandals who gave the truck's nose a dunking obviously got it started. "Looks like they're better at getting trucks going than my man is," Drees said from the river bank. The truck's front wheels and part of the cab were in the water while the rear portion of the box was hung up on the wooden pillars use